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CVE-2019-12977

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CVE-2019-12977 is a high-severity "use of uninitialized value" vulnerability in the WriteJP2Image function of ImageMagick 7.0.8-34, affecting ImageMagick products. With a CVSS score of 7.8, it can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability through a local attack requiring user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0.8-34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.8-34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.88%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0188 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 11,621 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-12977Moderate

imagemagick: use of uninitialised value in function WriteJP2Image in coders/jp2.c

Jun 26, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00069.html
github.com / ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1518
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00030.html
usn.ubuntu.com / 4192-1
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4712
securityfocus.com / bid/108913